Apostles pictured in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper are, from left, Bartholomew, James Minor, Andrew, Peter (also called Simon Peter), Judas Iscariot, John, Jesus, Thomas, James Major, Philip ...

Peter, who was originally called “Simon Peter,” was one of Jesus’ apostles, and was also the first pope. Originally, he was an opponent of Jesus. Later, ...

The Big Fisherman is a pious but plodding account of the conversion to Christianity of Simon-Peter, the apostle called 'the fisher of men'. Its treatment is reverent but far from rousing.

Peter understood this, as did the other apostles—and from that time forward, he was a leader among leaders. As for the Chair itself—well, let me draw from Pope Benedict XVI’s General ...

The Apostles preached the Gospel all across the ancient world, but for the Apostle to the Gentiles, political status and cosmopolitan sensibilities were needed. Saul of Tarsus had these things ...

The apostle Simon honored today is not the Simon who later became St. Peter. Simon was a common name in ancient Israel, and this Simon had an epithet — “the Zealot’'— to distinguish him ...